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The President then announced that the Trustees of the " Elliott 

 Prize for Scientific Research " had awarded the prize for the year 1901 

 to Babu Sarasi Lai Sarkar, and laid on the table the following : — 



Report on the Elliott Prize for Scientific Research for 3901. 



The Trustees have received Essays from the following competitors 

 for the prize : — 



1. An essay dealing with the properties of recurring radix frac- 

 tions. By Sarasi Lai Sarkar, M.A. 



2. A Memoir on Singular Solutions of Differential Equations. By 

 Jnan Saran Chakravarti, M.A. 



3. A new method of solving Quartics by Radicals. By Nripendra 

 Nath Chattopadhyay. 



4. Self-Acting pump. By Atul Krisna Day. 



The Trustees, after consulting experts as provided in the scheme, 

 adjudge the prize for the year 1901 to Babu Sarasi Lai Sarkar, M.A. 



T. Raleigh, ^ 



Vice- Chancellor, Calcutta University. 

 A. Pedler, , 



Director of Public Instruction, Bengal. ' 



J. WOODBURN, 



President, Asiatic Society of Bengal. . 



Calcutta : 

 Mil February, 1902. 



The President then addressed the meeting. 



ANNUAL ADDRESS, 1901. 



Gentlemen, 



I do not propose to detain you to-night with a long address. As it 

 happens, I have been engrossed during the last two weeks in other 

 matters, which have left me scant leisure, but I do not shelter myself 

 behind that excuse. It would be an unworthy return for the honour 

 you paid me in electing me your President if I did. But it is not 

 possible that any man can know or profitably address you on all the 

 varied subjects with which the Society concerns itself, and I think I 

 introduced a worthy variation in the customs of our body in leaving to 

 the experts whom we make our Secretaries the duty of explaining, as they 

 alone can properly do, the researches of the year in their several depart- 

 ments. They have prepared reports of much interest, which will be 

 separately placed before you, and I shall content myself with drawing 



